tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38828810107147550962016-12-06T19:46:46.239-05:00Growing up in Willow CreekGenealogies of the Agard, Nunn, Hardenbrook, Wortman, Doyle, and Tucker family lines.Mary Nunn Makihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252509559078174714noreply@blogger.comBlogger477125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882881010714755096.post-56273671690687627432016-12-06T12:12:00.000-05:002016-12-06T12:12:00.107-05:00A Baby Genealogist Grows Up – Part I <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --></style> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I started to seriously research the various lines of my family in 1997. One of those lines was of my great-grandmother Laura (Wortman) Hardenbrook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; At the time</span> an Internet search brought me to the Wortman line “documented” by a fellow researcher. I contacted him and he sent me the family chart which starts with William Wortman b: bef 1810 up through my grandmother Maude Emma (Hardenbrook) Agard. </span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Wortmans of Jacksonville, NY</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This was great! I copied the information from the chart into my Word document and started researching William and Mary (Gordon) Wortman’s eleven children. That was all well and good until this weekend, when I revisited this family line and found I had no <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">valid</b> citations as to how these lines are connected. When I was a baby genealogist, I had taken what another researcher had done (without citations of how he proved this family line) and had thought it gospel. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have to start again – a genealogy do-over – and carefully trace this family line back through the census and then into books and archives to see if my Wortman line indeed goes back to the family of William and Mary C. (Gordon) Wortman, who I believe came to Upstate New York from New Jersey. This revelation was discouraging, but on the bright side, it forced me to pull out my original binder and read what I had written many years ago.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The good news – My Binder</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">My large 3 ring binder holds write-ups on my various family lines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was pleased to see that I had a nice title page, a beautifully written introduction (featuring the genealogical lines that were united when my parents were married in 1941), a table of contents (organized starting with the earliest arrival of Rev. John Lowthropp in Barnstable, MA in mid-1600s to my Nunn/Doyle side arriving New York City late 1800s), disclaimer page, family and social history time line. Somewhere I have a medical history chart started as well. I will have to find that and include. My binder has separation tabs for each family line, some chapters have family charts, some have a draft index, and I have an overall draft index at the end. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’m Encouraged</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Although discouraged by the state of my Wortman family research, I am encouraged by what I have accomplished overall in writing my family history book. I have finished monographs on my Hardenbrook and Nunn lines. I've been working on the Tucker family, and now, of course, I'll have to add the Wortmans to my to-do list. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">New Resources</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What I love about genealogy is I keep learning new things, and I know I will never be done. Whether you are just starting or a seasoned researcher, take advantage of two new books<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: Genealogy Basics in 30 Minutes</i>by Shannon Combs-Bennett and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Planning a Future for Your Family’s Past</i> by Marian Burk Wood. Both books are well written and reasonably priced. Both books found on Amazon.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Part 2 of this blog will discuss file folders, indexing, and decisions I have to make for the next steps. In the meantime, I wish you happy researching. &nbsp; </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Mary Nunn Makihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252509559078174714noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882881010714755096.post-48006913118852489532016-11-22T09:07:00.000-05:002016-11-22T09:07:06.682-05:00Writing your Family History <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} p.MsoFootnoteText, li.MsoFootnoteText, div.MsoFootnoteText {mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-link:"Footnote Text Char"; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} span.MsoFootnoteReference {mso-style-noshow:yes; vertical-align:super;} span.FootnoteTextChar {mso-style-name:"Footnote Text Char"; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-locked:yes; mso-style-link:"Footnote Text"; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --></style> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">It wasn’t until I was asked to write a 600 word newsletter article about how to write a genealogy monograph that I realized how difficult that particular assignment was going to be. There are so many details to share that I didn’t know if I could accomplish it in only 600 words. But I did! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Our genealogical society recently sent out an opinion survey asking members what topics they would like presented at future meetings. The top subject in the returns was – Writing a Family History.</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">The challenge is breaking down this process step-by-step so those who are uncomfortable with writing, or have absolutely no idea where to start, are given that confidence. Over the winter I’ll work on a Keynote presentation about the different forms of sharing family histories. In the meantime, here is what I wrote for our society’s newsletter:</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">As genealogists we know that genealogy is more than names and dates. It’s about your ancestor’s lives. It’s about family stories that might or might not be true. It’s about social history and how your ancestor was affected by what was happening around them. In your research you will discover what they did for a living, their religion, what social organizations they belonged to and even health history.</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">At one conference we attended the speaker urged his audience to write up their family history <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">now</i></b>. Concentrate on one ancestral line; share it with family and repositories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>We are never done, but the information you have now (carefully cited) could help others in their research. An important benefit of writing your family history is that process will quickly tell you where the holes are in your research.</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">A monograph is a “written account of a single thing.” A monograph is similar to writing a book - to capture the reader’s interest, start with some interesting fact, character or event. I began my Hardenbrook monograph with a photo of my great-grandmother, Laura (Wortman) Hardenbrook and a quote I remembered her saying, “I will <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">never </i>give up the Hardenbrook name!” </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qcheHFW8zbA/WDRQpJFWuJI/AAAAAAAABec/pAtla9I-GaghzYBsALg2ectc2D0mZa6qgCLcB/s1600/Nana%2B%2526%2BPop%2BCover.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qcheHFW8zbA/WDRQpJFWuJI/AAAAAAAABec/pAtla9I-GaghzYBsALg2ectc2D0mZa6qgCLcB/s320/Nana%2B%2526%2BPop%2BCover.jpeg" width="251" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Harry and Mary Nunn</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">I began my Nunn monograph with an “I imagine” prologue of what my grandfather, Harry Nunn, might have felt when he learned of his sister’s death:</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 3.0in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">“He sat down and closed his eyes as flashbacks of his childhood overtook him. They had survived, most of them, because of Lizzie. The acrid smell of unwashed bodies, dirty diapers, overcooked onions and cabbage in that small crowded Manhattan tenement came back to him like it was yesterday. Eleven babies had arrived; some didn’t survive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Despite all this Lizzie cared for them when their mother couldn’t. Harry never mentioned his childhood. He didn’t remember much about his parents, but he never forgot the day the authorities arrived.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3882881010714755096#_ftn1" name="_ftnref" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[1]</span></span></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">We learn later in the monograph that the “authorities” was New York City’s Department of Public Charities Out-Door Poor. Harry and his siblings, except Lizzie, were scooped up and sent to St. Joseph’s Home in Peekskill, NY. The story is tragic and it took me nine years to uncover it.</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Once your readers are hooked, you then fill in the back-story, and write about what happened to each of the family members. </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">I develop a descendant line, and then research each family member, adding as much social history as I can find. Where they went to church, what organizations they belonged to, their occupation, and any other interesting facts.</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Writing my Hardenbrook monograph I learned about the Willard Psychiatric Hospital (originally intended to be the location of Cornell University), and the Seneca Ordnance — that land was taken by the government at the start of WWII in a similar fashion as Quantico. Writing my Nunn monograph I learned about the number of children orphaned during the late 1800s, the orphan trains, and St. Joseph’s Home. In 2010 I was able to stand on the land where my grandfather and his siblings once walked and played. Was it coincidental that our visit to Peekskill was on All Saints Day?</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">A table of contents will help you stay on track. When you’re done, develop an index. If this is something you don’t know how to do, find someone who can help.</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">If you aren’t sure about a fact or what your ancestor might have done in a situation, you can always use the words probably, or I imagine …</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Good resources are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Producing a Quality Family History</i> by Patricia Law Hatcher and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You Can Write Your Family History</i> by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack.</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">I am happy to help anyone wanting to write a monograph and with indexing. </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><br clear="all" /> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <div id="ftn" style="mso-element: footnote;"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3882881010714755096#_ftnref" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[1]</span></span></a> I imagine this scenario happened when Elizabeth died 2 January 1947.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Harry (Pop) kept his growing up years carefully concealed. The passing of Elizabeth must have affected him deeply.</div></div></div>Mary Nunn Makihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252509559078174714noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882881010714755096.post-54827534546466391812016-11-01T07:59:00.000-04:002016-11-01T07:59:41.974-04:00Lesson Learned: Dates and why we should carefully cite those <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --></style> <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GCTKVx-hmjs/WBiCv-STK0I/AAAAAAAABdo/pE1HiyappRou_Zg-gWxR7D2_javPUUG5wCLcB/s1600/WLR%2BDiaries.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GCTKVx-hmjs/WBiCv-STK0I/AAAAAAAABdo/pE1HiyappRou_Zg-gWxR7D2_javPUUG5wCLcB/s320/WLR%2BDiaries.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Diaries of William Lanning Tucker (1839 - 1929)</b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">I received another notice this weekend from FamilySearch.org that a date had been changed on my G-G-Grandfather <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">William Lanning Tucker</b>. Sigh. </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">With my Tucker family draft monograph in hand, I went to my FamilySearch Family Tree to see what exactly had been changed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Another researcher in this family line had changed his birth year from 1839 to 1840. My monograph had his birth date as 19 September 1839. But where exactly did I get that? I have a number of citations, including his granddaughter’s “Black Diaries” and “Information taken from 1830 family bible pages,” but that was more of a general citation for William’s parents, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ezra and Caroline (Lanning) Tucker</b>. I did not have a citation attached to William’s birth date per se. </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We have been told that a citation should accompany every date. What a pain! But excellent advice since it saves time later when verifying where the date came from. </b></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">So last night I spent time going back through what my Great Grandmother, Jessie (Tucker) Agard had written from the Tucker Family Bible, where she had noted her father’s birth date as 19 September 1839 and then just to make sure I retrieved William Lanning Tucker’s diaries from the archival box. </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">William Lanning Tucker kept diaries from 1919 through his death in 1929. I picked three years and went to 19 September. On that date for each of the three years I randomly chose, he wrote that it was his birthday and how old he was. That brought the year of his birth back to 1839. </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">The confusing issue is the 1900 census that states the day and year of birth is clearly 1840.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>I changed the date back to 1839 on FamilySearch, stated my sources and also wrote in that the U.S. Census for 1900 states the year 1840. </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Is one year’s difference really that important? To me, no, not for that family tree. My monograph will have what I believe is his correct date of birth, and in the footnote I have already mentioned the census discrepancy. </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Unfortunately, this is the same family line that was mistakenly merged with New Hampshire people. Hopefully that won’t happen again, but now I know how to reverse the information back. </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">This time was not wasted. It is good to have someone challenge your information. It makes you go back and double check where your information came from. In the midst of the thrill of the hunt, you (or I particularly) can make mistakes. Typos happen as you sleep, and even when you are awake. This situation also prompted me to pull out William’s diaries again. They are small books, and he doesn’t have much relevant genealogy information, but I realize I need to scan through them all for the hidden gems or births and deaths and other family activities. </span></div>Mary Nunn Makihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252509559078174714noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882881010714755096.post-70965413260513137392016-10-27T08:42:00.002-04:002016-10-27T08:42:25.613-04:00Virtual Genealogy Fair Day at the National Archives <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --></style> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">The <a href="https://www.archives.gov/calendar/genealogy-fair/2016/schedule-handouts">Virtual Genealogy Fair,</a> sponsored by the National Archives is going on again today. If you missed the sessions yesterday, and can’t attend live again today, not to worry. The sessions will be available on YouTube, and the slides are available now. Check out the schedule of presentations and listen to all or just the ones that interest you the most. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Mary Nunn Makihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252509559078174714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882881010714755096.post-84349679853571030692016-10-23T01:00:00.000-04:002016-10-23T01:00:26.696-04:00Genealogy Basics in 30 Minutes <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Times; panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} p {margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Times; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Times; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --></style> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are so fortunate to have talented friends and genealogy colleagues! Another new book I wanted to bring to your attention is by Shannon Combs-Bennett, <a href="http://genealogy.in30minutes.com/?main"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogy Basics in 30 Minutes</i></b></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.</i></span> </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This write-up is from the book’s website</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">: If you have ever wanted to research and document your family history the right way, then <em>Genealogy Basics In 30 Minutes</em>is for you! Authored by professional genealogist Shannon Combs-Bennett, this genealogy book explains the joys, challenges, and triumphs of researching your family’s origins. While many people assume genealogy research starts online, Combs-Bennett shows the importance of starting a family tree using documents that can be found in your own home!</span></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><em><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Genealogy Basics In 30 Minutes</span></em><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> is written in a friendly, easy-to-understand style that avoids complex jargon. There are lots of examples, case studies, and advice that can help would-be family historians quickly get up to speed.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In addition to listing best practices for conducting genealogical research, <em>Genealogy Basics In 30 Minutes</em> also warns readers about the many pitfalls of family research, from “brick wall” mysteries to time-wasting online searches.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><em><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Genealogy Basics In 30 Minutes</span></em><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> is not a comprehensive guide. Nevertheless, in a single reading you will be able to understand some important research basics that will serve you well as you embark on a journey to figure out the origins of your family. Creating a strong family tree will not only satisfy your own curiosity, but will also serve as a record to share with relatives and future generations!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Mary Nunn Makihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252509559078174714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882881010714755096.post-46157103519561795822016-10-22T08:25:00.000-04:002016-10-22T08:25:02.270-04:00The new We’re Related App by Ancestry <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Times; panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-noshow:yes; color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} p {margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Times; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Times; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --></style> <br /><div style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I became aware of Ancestry’s newest offering by way of Judy Russell’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">T<a href="https://www.legalgenealogist.com/2016/10/20/no-actually-were-not-related/">he Legal Genealogist</a></i> blog. The “We’re Related App” is Ancestry’s attempt to get the younger generation interested in genealogy. The app is free and is advertised as such: </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Find fame and friendships in your family. We’re Related is a free app that helps you discover if you are related to famous people and your circle of friends.</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></i></b> </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I’ve never had a desire to be related to someone famous, but I guess there are people out there that are. Obviously there are enough people for Ancestry to come up with this app. Case in point, when we first embarked on our genealogy research our daughter wanted us to find we had some American Indian heritage. So far she’s been disappointed.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Before downloading this app, please read Judy’s article. Although reluctant to connect her Facebook account with Ancestry, for the sake of her readers, she went through the steps and debunked every connection claim that was made between her family line and a famous person. Consequently, the title of her article is: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">No, actually, we’re not related. </i>After reading her article, then scroll down to the thirty-five comments. Some folks found a way to get around the FB/Ancestry connection. Others felt the research was sound. Judy’s point, however, is this is not genealogy. We may be connected to a “famous” person, but <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">we need to do the solid, documented research</b>.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Enjoy the journey!</span></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt;"><br /></div>Mary Nunn Makihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252509559078174714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882881010714755096.post-74086496539705545972016-10-20T09:01:00.000-04:002016-10-20T09:01:25.770-04:00Planning a Future for Your Family’s Past <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-noshow:yes; color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --></style> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cyNl--LICjg/WAi-1WuQdVI/AAAAAAAABdA/kt1WhHqNF5gXUL9eLE9rb14kJTa17eFpQCLcB/s1600/Planning%2Ba%2Bfuture.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cyNl--LICjg/WAi-1WuQdVI/AAAAAAAABdA/kt1WhHqNF5gXUL9eLE9rb14kJTa17eFpQCLcB/s320/Planning%2Ba%2Bfuture.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">I am excited to tell you about Marian Burk Wood’s new book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><b>Planning a Future for Your Family’s Past.</b> </i>This book contains step-by-step advice on how to prepare your genealogy research materials for the next generation.</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">We put so much time and effort into researching our ancestors. We back-up our files regularly, we organize by family line through binders, folders, etc. We travel to family home sites, cemeteries, town clerk’s offices, all the while saving our notes and documenting. But who is going to take over when the time comes? And how well preserved are your photos, original documents, etc.?</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">This book will help answer all those questions. The book is available on Amazon<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in trade paperback form and well as Kindle.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Learn about Marian’s PASS system from starting to sort your materials to writing a genealogical will. You can follow Marian on her blog: Climbing My Family Tree.&nbsp; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">[</span>http://climbingmyfamilytree.blogspot.com/]</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><b>Bottom line</b>: Every family historian needs this book close at hand. And remember Marian’s advice:</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">“Inch by inch it’s a cinch!”</span></div>Mary Nunn Makihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252509559078174714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882881010714755096.post-31090711084517759372016-10-18T16:56:00.000-04:002016-10-18T16:56:08.603-04:00Holt and Foust Family Lines – A Genealogy Detour <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --></style> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">A couple weeks ago a neighbor sent us an email asking if we could help him locate a repository for a packet of old documents he had inherited from his mother. We said we would be happy to look at what he had and depending on what was there, maybe we could, and if not, we knew people that could do an evaluation. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">We arranged a time when we both were free and he brought his packet to us. We asked our neighbor to write down his parents’ names, birth and death dates and where they were from. After he left, we sorted the documents on our dining room table. Once sorted, hubby went to his computer and started a family tree using our Reunion software. I grabbed the laptop and created abstracts of the deeds.</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">In the black packet with the label <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Compliments of The Pocomoke Guano Co., Manufacturers of Fertilizers, Norfolk, VA, Double your crop by using Pocomoke Fertilizers, It means a full pocket book,”</i> were indentures (deeds) for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Michael Holt, Jr</b>. dated 1760, indenture for Thomas Mathews dated 1775, indenture of James Rogers to John Holt dated 1796, land transfer from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Benjamin and Ann Tyson</b> to their infant grandson, Henry McKenzie dated 1805/1806, with private examination of Ann Tyson to make sure she was okay with the transfer. These deeds were all in the Alamance County/Orange County, North Carolina area.</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Besides the Holt documents, we had many items of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Foust family</b>, including the will of Marie Foust, Alamance County, North Carolina dated 18 April 1881. Canceled checks and receipts of Marie’s son, Thomas Foust. A War Ration book with stamps of Gina S. Holmes.</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">I Googled <a href="http://www.alamancemuseum.org/">Alamance Historical Society</a> and got their museum’s website. I sent them a note, and then followed up with a phone call. The museum is located in the country home of <b>Michael Holt, III</b>, built in 1790, so yes, they were very familiar with both the Holt and Foust names. I offered to send a list of the materials that were on our table, plus the abstracts, and I did that on Sunday. </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Today we received an email from the Alamance County Historical Museum, and they are indeed interested in the packet of documents. Our neighbor is going to be thrilled when he learns there is a repository that cares about and will preserve these documents. </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">In the meantime, hubby’s a bit frustrated that he could not find a connection between our neighbor’s mother and the Holts or Fousts. Maybe the museum folks can solve that mystery for us. In the meantime it was fun taking a genealogy detour, having documents from the 1700s in our hands, and coming up with a happy ending for everyone. </span></div>Mary Nunn Makihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252509559078174714noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882881010714755096.post-62465992185369398272016-10-17T01:00:00.000-04:002016-10-17T01:00:11.305-04:00My Doolittle Family Has Returned Unscathed<style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --></style> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-htBgoK3my00/WAJv2yiJ3HI/AAAAAAAABco/hYKBwMgvscsoDghGJK2hgTaDdCHNIW-zwCLcB/s1600/th.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-htBgoK3my00/WAJv2yiJ3HI/AAAAAAAABco/hYKBwMgvscsoDghGJK2hgTaDdCHNIW-zwCLcB/s1600/th.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: &quot;calibri&quot;;">&nbsp;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;">It continues to surprise me when family historians say their family trees are only online. This situation was brought to my attention again this week when hubby gave his Researching with Google presentation to our community. When asked what future topics they wished covered, the resounding vote was for what is the best software program to use. Hubby asked what people were using, and besides us who use Reunion for Mac, only two others responded and they were using very outdated, no longer supported, software.</span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;">Besides developing a written genealogy (in Word) of my family, I also enter my data into my Reunion software. I run off hard copies of my Word document, and backup my Reunion onto a thumb drive. And it is backed up daily onto our Time Machine. When I have time . . . I enter my family tree into FamilySearch.org.</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;">And that is where a problem arose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>A couple of weeks ago I received an email from FamilySearch that 76 changes were made to my Upstate New York Doolittle family line. The Doolittles are not a direct line, but I had done a fair amount of research on Mary Jane (Tucker) Doolittle and her husband, John. They had six children, and I had entered all these folks, plus spouses, children, sources and in some cases obits into this online family tree.</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;">After receiving the notice from FamilySearch, I went to my tree and realized John and the children had disappeared. Someone – someone who didn’t take the time to check out the family – merged this line with parents living in New Hampshire. </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;">Hubby, who faithfully attends the FamilySearch training sessions each month rolled his chair over to help rescue my family. After an hour . . . he suggested that I should just start over. </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;">I didn’t like that response. It shouldn’t be me spending hours recreating this online family tree. I appealed to one of our genealogy society members who volunteers at the Family History Center and has contact with Salt Lake City. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>Today, she and hubby worked hard to bring my family back to my tree. When hubby got home, he showed me there is a tab to the right of the screen that says, “recent changes.” Click on that and there should be a “restore” button. It looked easy enough, but the fact that it took two “experts” so much time to retrieve my family tells me there is more to that story (smile).</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;">I’m thankful my Doolittle family is back with their rightful wife and mother, and I’m thankful for my FamilySearch guardian angel, Julie, who made that happen. </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;">I hope my story will give pause to anyone who <span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;">only</span> posts their family tree online. You should have a genealogy software program on your own computer. All that research is valuable and should be treated that way. Ancestry is a privately owned company. There is no guarantee that it will continue or continue in a way that best serves genealogists. Their track r<span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;">ecord supporting Rootsweb is a good exam<span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;">ple.</span></span> As my story attests, FamilySearch also has issue<span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;">s, and I'm certain any online <span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;">service is going to have its foibles.&nbsp;</span></span> </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;"><b>Bottom line: Take control of your data. </b>Future generations will thank you for it.&nbsp;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;">p.s. I wrote to the person who merged my family into the wrong line and asked <span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;">her</span> to be more careful<span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;"> next time<span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;"> a<span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;">nd </span>d</span></span>ouble check in the future before merging. </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;trebuchet ms&quot; , sans-serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Mary Nunn Makihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252509559078174714noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882881010714755096.post-91333932324431257232016-10-15T11:26:00.003-04:002016-10-15T11:26:58.467-04:00Olive (Beardsley) Darling <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:"Book Antiqua"; panose-1:2 4 6 2 5 3 5 3 3 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Garamond; panose-1:2 2 4 4 3 3 1 1 8 3; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} h4 {mso-style-link:"Heading 4 Char"; mso-style-next:Normal; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; page-break-after:avoid; mso-outline-level:4; font-size:9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;} p.MsoFootnoteText, li.MsoFootnoteText, div.MsoFootnoteText {mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-link:"Footnote Text Char"; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} span.MsoFootnoteReference {mso-style-noshow:yes; vertical-align:super;} span.Heading4Char {mso-style-name:"Heading 4 Char"; mso-style-locked:yes; mso-style-link:"Heading 4"; mso-ansi-font-size:9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-ascii-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family:"Book Antiqua"; font-weight:bold;} span.FootnoteTextChar {mso-style-name:"Footnote Text Char"; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-locked:yes; mso-style-link:"Footnote Text"; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --></style> <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WSsOutYwrsg/WAJIjCvfY6I/AAAAAAAABcQ/y1i3nJpMSfsScSB92GjuNI8MHkNUFMbTACLcB/s1600/Olive%2BBeardsley.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WSsOutYwrsg/WAJIjCvfY6I/AAAAAAAABcQ/y1i3nJpMSfsScSB92GjuNI8MHkNUFMbTACLcB/s320/Olive%2BBeardsley.jpeg" width="252" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Olive Beardsley</b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Since I mentioned the photo request for Olive Beardsley (b: 1894) in my previous post, I thought it was only fair I share that cute photo of Olive. At this point in my research I don't know a lot about Olive and her hubby, Raymond Darling, but I'm happy to share what I have so far.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Olive was the third child of Frank J. and Carrie (Tucker) Beardsley. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Carrie was the older sister of my great-grandmother Jessie (Tucker) Agard.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>About 1917 Olive Beardsley married Raymond H. Darling (b: 24 July 1897) of Mecklenburg, New York. </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Raymond H. Darling was the son of Andrew S. Darling (b: 1867) and Ida M. Darling (b: 1875)<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3882881010714755096#_ftn1" name="_ftnref" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[1]</span></span></a>In the 1910 Darling household was Andrew’s father Hiram F. Darling, age 73. Hiram was a widower. Andrew and Ida stated they had been married seventeen years.</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Olive and Raymond farmed the land, first near his family in the 1920s, and then by the 1930s they owned their own farm next door to her parents, Frank and Carrie Beardsley in Hector, Schuyler County, New York. </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">A year after their marriage on 22 October 1918 Raymond registered for the World War I draft. That document states he was born in Mecklenburg, NY on 24 July 1897. He had brown eyes and dark brown hair. Olive was listed as his nearest relative.<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3882881010714755096#_ftn2" name="_ftnref" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[2]</span></span></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Olive and Raymond had three children: Ruth E. Darling (b: 1922), Stanley M. Darling (b: 1925), and Helen M. Darling (b: 1930).&nbsp;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">I have since learned that this family line can also be spelled as Beardslee. It is interesting since every document I have for this family line, the name is consistently spelled Beardsley. The fun (and challenge) of genealogy is you never know what new and different information is around the corner. That's why we need to cite our sources!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Have a great day!</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br clear="ALL" style="mso-special-character: line-break; page-break-before: always;" /></span></b> <div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><br clear="all" /> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <div id="ftn" style="mso-element: footnote;"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3882881010714755096#_ftnref" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[1]</span></span></a> Birth dates for Darling family are from 1910 federal census.</div></div><div id="ftn" style="mso-element: footnote;"> <h4 align="left" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt; text-align: left;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3882881010714755096#_ftnref" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[2]</span></span></a> <span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Registration State: <em>New York</em>; Registration County: <em>Schuyler</em>; Roll: <em>1818988</em>Ancestry.com. <em>U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918</em> [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. </span></h4><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .1pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">United States, Selective Service System. <em><span style="font-family: Cambria;">World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918</span></em>. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M1509, 4,582 rolls. Imaged from Family History Library microfilm. </span></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div></div></div>Mary Nunn Makihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252509559078174714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882881010714755096.post-19029209045638497102016-10-14T16:58:00.000-04:002016-10-14T16:58:07.633-04:00Frank J. and Carrie (Tucker) Beardsley <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Garamond; panose-1:2 2 4 4 3 3 1 1 8 3; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} p.MsoFootnoteText, li.MsoFootnoteText, div.MsoFootnoteText {mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-link:"Footnote Text Char"; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} span.MsoFootnoteReference {mso-style-noshow:yes; vertical-align:super;} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-noshow:yes; color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} span.FootnoteTextChar {mso-style-name:"Footnote Text Char"; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-locked:yes; mso-style-link:"Footnote Text"; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --></style> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">I was recently asked for a photo of Olive Beardsley, and was happy to comply with that request. I then thought about her family and decided I should post more about the Beardsley family. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Carrie (Tucker) Beardsley (b: 10 Jan 1866)<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> is my great-grandmother’s sister, and the first child of William Lanning Tucker and Fanny Adelia Hosner. Carrie married Frank J. Beardsley (Nov. 1864-1938) in 1886.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3882881010714755096#_ftn1" name="_ftnref" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[1]</span></span></a>Their children were Herbert W. (b: 23 February 1888),<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3882881010714755096#_ftn2" name="_ftnref" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[2]</span></span></a>Mabel E. (b: April 1890), and Olive A. (b: January 1894.)<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3882881010714755096#_ftn3" name="_ftnref" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[3]</span></span></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Besides keeping house and raising her children, upon her mother’s death in 1916, Carrie helped care for her father. In her free time Carrie stayed busy with the Mecklenburg Grange and Study Club.</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Frank Beardsley earned his living as a blacksmith in the Schuyler County Town of Hector, New York, near Mecklenburg. In 1920 he was proprietor of a garage, and then by 1930 at the age of 65 he was helping on a nearby farm. </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">In his memoir, Mecklenburg resident Alton Culver remembers Frank Beardsley. Mr. Culver states: “He was a big powerful man and ambitious, and had the ability to turn off work like nobody’s business. He built wagons and he could do most anything. He was a good blacksmith, too. He was still running the shop when the model T Fords became quite prevalent. Beardsley got the reputation of being able to fix these Fords so they wouldn’t shimmy.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3882881010714755096#_ftn4" name="_ftnref" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[4]</span></span></a></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Obituaries for Carrie Tucker Beardsley</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><i>Mrs. Carrie Beardsley passed away on Wednesday at her home. She had been ill several months. Besides her husband she leaves two daughters, Mrs. Mabel Carman of Jacksonville and Mrs. Olive Darling of Mecklenburg and six grandchildren. The funeral was held on Saturday at her home, the Rev. K. M. Walker of Chittenango officiating. Burial in Mecklenburg cemetery. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3882881010714755096#_ftn5" name="_ftnref" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[5]</span></span></a></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The death of Mrs. Carrie Beardsley, aged 66, wife of Frank Beardsley, occurred Wednesday, December 7, 1932, at her home in Mecklenburg, following a long illness. Besides her husband she is survived by two daughters, Mrs. C. Owen Carman of Trumansburg and Mrs. Raymond H. Darling of Mecklenburg; also three sisters, Miss Addie Tucker of Asbury Park, NJ, Mrs. John Rightmire of Trumansburg, and Mrs. Arthur Agard of Willow Creek; and six grandchildren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>She was an active member of the Mecklenburg Grange and Study Club.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>The funeral was held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, December 10<sup>th</sup>from the home with Rev. K.M. Walker of Chittenango officiating. Interment in the Mecklenburg cemetery.</span></i><span style="font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3882881010714755096#_ftn6" name="_ftnref" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[6]</span></span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Obituaries of Frank J. Beardsley</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><i>Frank J. Beardsley passed away suddenly at his home on the Smith Valley Road Wednesday about 5:00 p.m. [abt. 23 September 1938]. The funeral services were held at the home Saturday at 3:00 p.m. and burial was in the Mecklenburg Cemetery. Rev. Asa A. Nichols, his pastor, officiated. He was born and lived his life in this community and had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church over 51 years.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3882881010714755096#_ftn7" name="_ftnref" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[7]</span></span></a> </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Frank Beardsley, 73, Dies; Rites Saturday. Services will be held at the home near Mecklenburg at 3 p.m. Saturday for Frank J. Beardsley, 73, who died there Wednesday. Although he had been in failing health for the past two years, his death came suddenly. Rev. Asa Nichols, pastor of the Federated Church of Mecklenburg will officiate. Interment will be in Mecklenburg cemetery. Mr. Beardsley is survived by two daughters, Mrs. C. Owen Carman of Trumansburg, Mrs. Raymond H. Darling of Mecklenburg; three sisters, Mrs. Elzy Jones of Yonkers, Mrs. Charles Benson of Mecklenburg, Mrs. Homer Rappleye of Penn Yan. Six grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3882881010714755096#_ftn8" name="_ftnref" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[8]</span></span></a></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br clear="ALL" style="mso-special-character: line-break; page-break-before: always;" /></span></b> <div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><br clear="all" /> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <div id="ftn" style="mso-element: footnote;"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3882881010714755096#_ftnref" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[1]</span></span></a> Marriage year from 1900 Federal Census where it was stated they were married fourteen years.</div></div><div id="ftn" style="mso-element: footnote;"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3882881010714755096#_ftnref" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[2]</span></span></a> WWI Draft Registration Form, <a href="http://www.ancestry.com/">www.ancestry.com</a>, accessed 2 Oct 2012.</div></div><div id="ftn" style="mso-element: footnote;"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3882881010714755096#_ftnref" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[3]</span></span></a> Children’s birth dates from 1900 Federal Census.</div></div><div id="ftn" style="mso-element: footnote;"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3882881010714755096#_ftnref" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[4]</span></span></a> Culver, Alton, Mecklenburg, NY, recorded abt 1993, edited by Calvin Culver, October 1998, copy held by Harvey Paige, Yellow Springs, OH. </div></div><div id="ftn" style="mso-element: footnote;"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3882881010714755096#_ftnref" name="_ftn5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[5]</span></span></a> “Carrie Beardsley,” society note, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Watkins Express, </i>14 Dec. 1932, p. 9, col. 2. [www.fultonhistory.org]</div></div><div id="ftn" style="mso-element: footnote;"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3882881010714755096#_ftnref" name="_ftn6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[6]</span></span></a> “Carrie Beardsley,” obituary, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Watkins Express, </i>14 Dec. 1932, p. 3, col. 1. [www.fultonhistory.org]</div></div><div id="ftn" style="mso-element: footnote;"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3882881010714755096#_ftnref" name="_ftn7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[7]</span></span></a> “Frank J. Beardsley,” obituary, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Watkins Express, </i>28 September 1938, p. 2, col. 1. [www.fultonhistory.org accessed 22 Jan 2013]</div></div><div id="ftn" style="mso-element: footnote;"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3882881010714755096#_ftnref" name="_ftn8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[8]</span></span></a> “C Owen Carman,” obituary for Frank J. Beardsley, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Syracuse Journal, </i>23 September 1938, p. 1, col 2. [www.fultonhistory.org; accessed 23 Jan 2013]</div></div></div>Mary Nunn Makihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252509559078174714noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882881010714755096.post-91783501157208908972016-08-12T15:50:00.000-04:002016-08-12T15:50:28.312-04:00The long-term consequences of the abuse of power <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --></style> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></b></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">For those who have been reading this blog for a long time . . . you might remember that a few years ago hubby and I were helping one of our friends find the identity of her father’s birth parents. </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">In a nutshell: Through many years of research we identified the birth mother’s maiden name as Lena Stanley of Trumansburg, NY. Against her parent’s wishes, and without the knowledge of Joseph’s family, Lena and Joseph Myers were married across Cayuga Lake in Ludlowville, New York (abt 1906). According to local newspaper articles the loving couple honeymooned on a cruise to Texas. And that is where Joseph’s parents caught up with them and sent them home. Joseph was taken out of Cornell University and sent to Harvard. Lena went back home to live with her parents. It was a year and a half later that a son was born. And herein lies the difficulty. Who was the baby’s birth father? Was it Joseph (who could have traveled back through Ithaca from Boston on his way west to his home), was it the adopted father, or someone else?</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Every adopted child has two birth certificates. Our friend had her father’s, but it listed his adopted parents as his “parents.” Sealed in the New York State archives is the original birth certificate for our friend’s father. It has the same number as his “adopted” certificate, but the original is sealed forever and would only be released if our friend hires an attorney and makes a good case as to why the adoption file should be unsealed.</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">WHY?</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">We just learned the reason for why New York State adoption records are sealed forever. Former Governor Herbert Henry Lehman. He was governor for the years 1933-1942, and in 1935 he signed a law sealing birth certificates for New York adoptees. That was because he and his wife Edith had adopted a child through the Tennessee Children’s Home Society run by Georgia Tann. </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Georgia Tann was a child trafficker. She stole babies, using a number of tactics, sometimes telling birth mothers that their child had died. She then sold the babies to wealthy people, the Lehman’s being one. Lehman signed a bill sealing adoption records into law to protect his family from finding out from where they came. Unfortunately, that decision has caused harm to the many people trying to find their birth parents. </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">If you wish to read more of this fascinating story, you can find a book on Amazon – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller who Corrupted Adoption. </i></span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Back to the couple Lena and Joseph Myers. They divorced in another county (where they weren’t known) and <i><b>both claimed</b></i> (yea, right!) the marriage was never consummated (will save you the gory details of the divorce decree), and the marriage was annulled. </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">We don’t know if Lena listed the child’s father on the original birth certificate, and thanks to Governor Lehman, we may never know. Hopefully New York State residents will learn about why this law exists and request that it be repealed. </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Mary Nunn Makihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252509559078174714noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882881010714755096.post-78542976337303646712016-08-12T07:09:00.000-04:002016-08-12T07:09:19.225-04:00If I ruled the genealogy world . . .<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B_7SMEyirY8/V62r3_WZLPI/AAAAAAAABac/D_ltScCQDf8-8-xLMBNKL7M3K9cLEfRjACLcB/s1600/th.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B_7SMEyirY8/V62r3_WZLPI/AAAAAAAABac/D_ltScCQDf8-8-xLMBNKL7M3K9cLEfRjACLcB/s1600/th.jpg" /></a></div>If I ruled the genealogy world I would provide genealogy clubs/societies with a free and well maintained web hosting service. I would recognize all the good work they do, no matter their size.<br /><br />Because <i><b>I understand</b></i> how important it is to announce their meetings, conferences, and to communicate with their members.<br /><br /><i><b>I understand</b></i> how important it is for genealogists to reach out to these groups for help with research in the far away places.<br /><br />Once again, it has been over 12 days (and counting) - yes, 12 days that Ancestry.com has allowed their free genealogy club/society web hosting site (Rootsweb) to be down. The only saving grace this time is that the pages are up - but new information - like our society's fall conference details - cannot be published. When I wrote to them about that situation 12 days ago, the response was, they were down for "maintenance" "sorry for the inconvenience."<br /><br />Apparently, Ancestry.com management team is more interested in counting their money than in maintaining their sites.<br /><br />So, if I ruled the genealogy world . . . Mary Nunn Makihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252509559078174714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882881010714755096.post-58365549430276428922016-07-26T14:57:00.001-04:002016-07-26T14:57:08.441-04:00The Hart Island Project <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --></style> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">I recently learned about the <a href="https://www.hartisland.net/">Hart Island Project </a>and its Traveling Cloud Museum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Hart Island occupies 101 acres in Long Island Sound at the eastern edge of the Bronx borough of New York City. It is the largest tax funded cemetery in the world.&nbsp; </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">One million people have been buried on Hart Island anonymously. The website now features names of those buried on the island since 1980. There is an easy search function in which to find whether your family member is there. The Project’s Traveling Cloud Museum is looking for stories/information to accompany the names.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Even if you don't have family buried there, please visit the page. The information and the photos are heart wrenching.&nbsp; </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">The Hart Island Project is a wonderful gift to family historians. I remain hopeful that one day the name of my great-grandmother, Catherine Nunn, who died 12 May 1917 will be listed, if indeed that is where she is buried.That mystery remains.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Mary Nunn Makihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252509559078174714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882881010714755096.post-25600156556566429932016-07-25T08:15:00.000-04:002016-07-25T08:15:25.956-04:00Our Saturday Workshop <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --></style> <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0Kykqcmn-cQ/V5YBtzrUGaI/AAAAAAAABZk/srsjItO63hU30o1rzhUhGAV21z8uAQ8AACLcB/s1600/workshop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0Kykqcmn-cQ/V5YBtzrUGaI/AAAAAAAABZk/srsjItO63hU30o1rzhUhGAV21z8uAQ8AACLcB/s320/workshop.jpg" width="239" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Ray Maki introducing speaker Shannon Combs-Bennett</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;, sans-serif;">This past </span></span></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Saturday we welcomed national (soon to be international) speaker Shannon Combs-Bennett to our development for a Genealogy 101 all day workshop.</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Shannon provided a fifty page PDF that included her presentation, blank copies of each federal census and various other helpful forms.</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Hubby copied her PDF for each of the twenty-four participants. The copies were then put into white 3-ring binders, with a personalized title page. We tucked several pieces of loose paper into the front pocket of each binder so people would have something to write on should they forget to bring paper for note taking.</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Shannon’s talk went from getting started through telling people about the lineage societies they could join.</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">One of the interesting things I learned was a website called http: //www.citationmachine.net/Chicago that helps you put citations into the correct format. I haven’t tried this yet, but am excited about doing so. Although we know about citing sources – I keep my copy of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Evidence Explained</i> by Elizabeth Shown Mills right alongside my copy of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Chicago Manual of Style</i>, I think this part of her talk was eye-opening for most participants. Shannon encouraged them to keep track of the path they traveled when researching. I know this is the correct way, but I also know that when you are following a lead, you are too excited to stop and write everything down. </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">She encouraged everyone to journal. Start now if you aren’t already keeping one. It will be invaluable to future researchers. </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Keep a research log.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jot down (or copy/paste) the URL, date accessed, the steps taken to find the information, what was found and what wasn’t found.</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Knowing she had an audience of beginners, Shannon told them to set a certain goal. Not “I want to know everything about my Jones family line,” but instead ask, “I want to find my great grandfather Ezra Jones.” </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Organization is another conundrum for genealogists. Shannon showed how one friend keeps all her information in 3-ring binders. Shannon doesn’t have enough bookshelf space for this way, so she keeps her files digitally as well as in Pendaflex folders in filing cabinets (She has many in her home office). The folders can be organized by surname, location, or any way that fits your family best. Just keep the labeling of your digital and paper files consistent.</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">She also covered social media for genealogists, DNA, planning your research trip, and the all-important evaluation of sources – primary, secondary, or of “unknown origin.”</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Although we consider ourselves seasoned genealogists, we learned a lot from Shannon’s Genealogy 101 workshop. That is true of almost every genealogy presentation we attend. There is always something said that makes that light bulb go off in our head. </span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Mary Nunn Makihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252509559078174714noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882881010714755096.post-39895891687884289422016-07-24T13:01:00.000-04:002016-07-24T13:01:08.993-04:00American Ghost – A brilliantly written family history. <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-noshow:yes; color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --></style> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BvsSLQ62_io/V5Tyu9lh1TI/AAAAAAAABZM/cVDj2HlpNoIMoDCzetR3z04OmbwnLgmBwCLcB/s1600/IMG_1453.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BvsSLQ62_io/V5Tyu9lh1TI/AAAAAAAABZM/cVDj2HlpNoIMoDCzetR3z04OmbwnLgmBwCLcB/s320/IMG_1453.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I just finished reading <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">American Ghost; A Family’s Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest</i> by Hannah Nordhaus. It is a beautifully crafted story about Hannah’s German ancestors who had to escape Germany during the Nazi reign. The family settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the father, Abraham Staab, became a successful businessman. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>So successful that he built a house for his wife and children called <a href="http://www.laposadadesantafe.com/about-us/history">La Posada.</a>&nbsp; </span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">&nbsp; </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Over many years traveling back and forth across the country and to Germany, consulting with historians, genealogists, spiritualists, ghost hunters and family members, Hannah captures the essence of the lives of Abraham and Julia Schuster Staab. The amount of research done tracing this Jewish family is impressive.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br />It is Julia that Hannah is most interested in. She was curious about the continued reports of Julie’s ghost at La Posada. "A sad, dark-eyed woman in a long gown" kept appearing frightening guests and staff at the former Staab house. Hannah is driven to learn as much as she can about her great-great-grandmother. And she does. Was Julia's husband a tyrant or just a man of his time and place? There are many questions in which Hannah seeks the answer. Some she finds; others remain a mystery. Isn't that how it is with all our ancestor research?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The book is well written and captures well the lives of the Staab and Schuster families. It is the kind of family story most of us can only dream of writing. I highly recommend this book. </span></div>Mary Nunn Makihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252509559078174714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882881010714755096.post-78707630577496024192016-05-06T16:30:00.000-04:002016-05-06T16:30:24.391-04:00Jacksonville NY Methodism - an early history <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} p.MsoFootnoteText, li.MsoFootnoteText, div.MsoFootnoteText {mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-link:"Footnote Text Char"; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} span.MsoFootnoteReference {mso-style-noshow:yes; vertical-align:super;} span.FootnoteTextChar {mso-style-name:"Footnote Text Char"; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-locked:yes; mso-style-link:"Footnote Text"; mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --></style> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In the year 1790 a Methodist family, Samuel Weyburn, wife and four children, settled at what was later known as Goodwin’s Point, now Taughannock. Four years later two brothers, also Methodists, named Richard and Benjamin Goodwin, settled at the same place.</span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In the year 1795, three Methodist preachers, Reverends Valentine Cook, Thornton and Fleming were preaching in this territory. It was a usual custom when two or more Methodist families settled near each other to form a class. Often these classes were permanent and a church organization thus started. These three preachers labored unceasingly and when a young preacher, William Colbert, who was sent on a tour of exploration through the then western wilds of New York on his return gave a most glowing report of the work, that Bishop Asbury formed a circuit from the immense tract. The circuit was from Wilkes Barre to Niagara.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Valentine Cook was appointed presiding elder.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In 1801 David James of the Seneca Circuit was preaching at Jacksonville and Goodwin’s Point. In 1808 Sunday preaching was first commenced and a camp meeting was held the same year on the J.M. Stout farm. The original Stout farm included the F.A. Lueder farm and the land on both sides of the road extending to Jane Kraft’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>It is believed that the camp meeting grounds was in the woods on the Kraft Road.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In this year, 1808, Rev. Gideon Draper, who had charge of the Canaan Circuit, Susquehanna District, Philadelphia Conference, came through here and preached at Trumansburg. A descendant with the same name, Gideon Draper, is now in Japan (1934) and holds a relationship with this conference. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Up to 1810 all these circuit preachers belonged to the Philadelphia Conference, but this year the Genesee Conference was erected. Gideon Draper was chosen first presiding elder and held the position for many years. Anning Owen was another presiding elder who did noble work, lived a part of his life in this town, died here and was buried just outside of Ithaca. His grave was visited at the time of the Methodist pilgrimage (December 1934) and a tribute paid to his life and work. These men worked under the supervision of Bishop Francis Asbury, who was sent here by John Wesley. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The first class at Jacksonville was formed in 1803 with Richard Goodwin as leader and their meetings were held at Goodwin’s Point.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In 1804 another class was formed at Jacksonville with Benjamin Lanning as leader. After 1815 a class was formed at Mack Settlement with Elias Lanning as leader, and about 1825 a church was erected, 25 x 34 feet. This church stood on the corner in the field now owned by Charles Chadwick at Steven’s Corners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>The membership at one time numbered 100. The building was sold and now is part of the barn on the David Colegrove farm on Taughannock Boulevard. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">These classes were under the leadership of the class leaders, and local preachers with the circuit preachers coming sometimes once a month, sometimes once in three months. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There is on file in the office of the “Northern Christian Advocate” in Syracuse, an article dated 1860 written by the Rev. Gideon Lanning. He was the son of Benjamin Lanning and was born 23 March 1792. The Lannings came to Jacksonville in 1801 and settled on the Trumbull Farm. The Rev. Gideon Lanning is the author of a number of historic papers on the early life of this section of the state.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In this article he states that a class was formed by Richard Goodwin, Sr. in 1795 and that in 1805 the society dedicated its first church edifice in Jacksonville. These meetings were held at Goodwin’s Point.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3882881010714755096#_ftn1" name="_ftnref" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[1]</span></span></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br clear="ALL" style="mso-special-character: line-break; page-break-before: always;" /></span> <br /><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[This information from the Jacksonville Church History written by Jessie Tucker Agard.]<br clear="ALL" style="mso-special-character: line-break; page-break-before: always;" /></span> <br /><div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><br clear="all" /> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <div id="ftn" style="mso-element: footnote;"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3882881010714755096#_ftnref" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[1]</span></span></a> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Methodist Episcopal Church History of Jacksonville</i>. Revised from old records by Jesse Mullette, Pastor, April 1916.</div></div></div>Mary Nunn Makihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252509559078174714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882881010714755096.post-20323225944921326112016-05-01T11:49:00.000-04:002016-05-01T11:49:32.989-04:00Agard Family Do-Over – Researching the Storrs Family of Tolland County, Connecticut <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Garamond; panose-1:2 2 4 4 3 3 1 1 8 3; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --></style> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It's a cold rainy day in Virginia, but the bluebirds and hummingbirds still come for some refreshment, entertaining us as we sit at our computers researching our family lines. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In 1685 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Esther Agard</b> (founding member of the Agards in America), married <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Samuel Storrs</b> of Barnstable, MA. In 1698, Samuel, Esther and her son, John Agard, along with Samuel’s six children moved to Mansfield, Connecticut. It was there that Samuel and Esther had three more children, Thomas, Esther and Cordial, and those are the ones I have been working on today – especially Esther. </span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I had written down that she married <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">William Hall</b>. To verify that has been a challenge. I find birth and baptismal records for the children of William and Esther, but none of the records I came across said it was Esther <u>Storrs</u>. Until I found a USGenWeb Project document of Tolland County, Connecticut, Family Outlines, Hall Family of Tolland, Connecticut that lists the Hall family with a William Hall marrying Esther Storrs. The list of children in this document matches other lists I have seen. </span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the meantime, I sent a note off to the Tolland County Historical Society to see if there might be other resources that confirms the union of William and Esther. And I, too, will keep searching. </span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Mary Nunn Makihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252509559078174714noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882881010714755096.post-29782508654481985342016-04-29T13:40:00.000-04:002016-04-29T13:40:59.485-04:00Samuel Agard, An Early Settler of the Town of Catherine, NY <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Garamond; panose-1:2 2 4 4 3 3 1 1 8 3; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} p.MsoFootnoteText, li.MsoFootnoteText, div.MsoFootnoteText {mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-link:"Footnote Text Char"; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} span.MsoFootnoteReference {mso-style-noshow:yes; vertical-align:super;} span.FootnoteTextChar {mso-style-name:"Footnote Text Char"; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-locked:yes; mso-style-link:"Footnote Text"; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --></style> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This afternoon I pulled out the research I did many years ago – when I was a baby genealogist – on my Agard family line. The document I had started was 43 pages of family history starting with the founding couple, John and Esther Agard who arrived on the Massachusetts shore in 1683.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The plan is to read through a few pages at a time, run them off, and then perform a “genealogy do-over” checking names, dates, and all other facts. I am so glad I did this original research when we lived in New England, as that was where I had access to the records.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When I came to Samuel Agard, I got that small world feeling again, as genealogists are wont to do. When I write up monographs, I like to explain the geographic areas in which my ancestors lived. In this case, the Agards settled in the Town of Catherine, NY. And if you read the write-up I found, one of the land purchasers was from Newtown, CT, where I was living when I did this original research. And then my Agard ancestors went on to establish the first library in Catherine. You go guys!</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And so, with that introduction, meet Samuel Agard.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Samuel Agard (b: 6 Sept 1782) was the second child of Noah and Lucina (Jones) Agard. In 1807 Samuel married <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sally Stone</span>(1785-1813), daughter of John and Lowly Stone of Branford, Connecticut. The promise of available western lands was tempting for folks trying to farm the rocky Connecticut soil. Samuel traveled to Catherine Township, NY with his father Noah in 1809 and took title to land in 1814.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>He then found property in the Town of Dix that had a sawmill.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #ADADAD; mso-pattern: solid #D9D9D9; mso-shading: windowtext; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The town of Catherine was originally called Johnson’s Settlement, named for Robert C. Johnson of New York City who purchased 10,725 acres in this area of Upstate New York.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>In the center of the crossroads stood a post, not unlike the liberty pole that stands in the middle of State Route 25 and Route 6 in Newtown, Connecticut. The town was divided into northeast, northwest, southeast and southwest sections. Interestingly, the lot in the southeast corner of the town was purchased by Job Lattin, Jr. of Newtown, Connecticut.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>In fact, many early settlers arrived from Connecticut as this area of Upstate New York was known for its fertile land and abundant orchards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #ADADAD; mso-pattern: solid #D9D9D9; mso-shading: windowtext; text-indent: .5in;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #ADADAD; mso-pattern: solid #D9D9D9; mso-shading: windowtext; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Town of Catherine was organized by act of legislature on 9 March 1798. John Mitchell is listed as the first <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bona fide </i>settler; Eaton Agard is listed as one of the early settlers. The Methodist Episcopal Church in Catherine was organized in 1805; one of the first trustees is Samuel Agard. The Catherine Library Association was organized 1 April 1817 and Samuel Agard again listed as a first trustee. The first post office was established in 1816.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Samuel Agard, son of Noah, was also a circuit preacher in 1825. Eaton Agard was Town of Catherine Supervisor in 1847, 1867-68.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>The Agard farm was located at Lawrence 75A, Northwest Section Township 3, Johnson Settlement to Cayuta Lake.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sally died in 1813 and is buried in the Agard Cemetery on Route 414 between Alpine and Odessa, New York. </span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In 1819 Samuel married <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Lydia Hibbard, the fourth </span>daughter of Daniel and Anna (Ripley) Hibbard, of Dummerston, Vermont. Lydia (Hibbard) Agard was born 1 August 1792. Samuel and Lydia’s children were all born in Catherine, NY. Lydia died 25 August 1846 in Havana (Montour Falls, NY);<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3882881010714755096#_ftn1" name="_ftnref" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[1]</span></span></a> Samuel died 27 October 1861. Samuel and Lydia are buried in the Montour Cemetery, Montour, New York. See later pages for further information on Samuel and Lydia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On 22 May 1817 Samuel and Eaton Agard, along with others “…did by writing under their hands signify their consent and desire to associate themselves together for the procuring and creating a public library…” Samuel was First Trustee of the Catherine Library Association</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br clear="all" /> </span><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div id="ftn" style="mso-element: footnote;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3882881010714755096#_ftnref" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[1]</span></span></a> Jarvis, Louise Huntington Bailey, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Some ancestors and descendants of Samuel Agard and Florence Williams (Huntington) Bailey, </i>Grand Rapids, MI, 1947. P. 4.</span></div></div></div>Mary Nunn Makihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252509559078174714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882881010714755096.post-84181791372772100142016-04-26T01:00:00.000-04:002016-04-26T01:00:29.521-04:00One Thing Leads to Another continued <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --></style> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the process of adding what I knew about the VanGosbecks to my Tucker FamilySearch.org tree on Saturday, my eye caught the name Hosmer. What? I didn’t think I had that name in my family tree. When I finished with the VanGosbecks, I went over to the Cleveland/Hosner line and sure enough, someone (s) had changed the name of Isaac Hosner to Hosmer. Not only that, they changed the name of each one of his ten children! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My first reaction was – what are they doing messing with my family? Then I realized that maybe there was something I missed, and where did the name Hosner originate? </span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am fortunate to have a copy of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">handwritten journal</b> of Adaline Cleveland Hosner (1809-1882). I also have a copy of the typed transcription of her journal, as well as a copy of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Pioneer Clevelands, from the Journal of Adaline Cleveland Hosner and the family records preserved by her granddaughter Mrs. Jessie Agard </i>(my great-grandmother).</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There still could be a mistake in transcription that has been carried forward, so I was thankful I could refer to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">original document</b>covering the years 1838-7 August 1882. The handwritten copy was difficult to read, so I went to the transcribed version and went through line by line hoping I would come across the last name of Adaline’s husband. I finally found where she called him by last name, but the fear remained that it was transcribed that way for clarification and that when I got to the primary source, Adaline would refer to him as “husband,” or Mr. H. </span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But that was not the case. On page 29 (transcriptionist number) of the primary document, Adaline mentions her husband as “Hosner.” This name appears a second time because she is writing about her husband suing his neighbor for allegedly poisoning their horse and she takes a third person approach.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So I had my proof of the spelling of the name Hosner. I had to then change each one of the entries back to Hosner (from Hosmer) and explain each time why I thought it was correct. </span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One of Adaline and Isaac’s children, Ervin, changed their family name to Hausner, so that name runs through this family line. And there may be a line that eventually changed their name to Hosmer and I am excited to learn about them. BUT, they should NOT be changing the original name that is clearly Hosner. </span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Mary Nunn Makihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252509559078174714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882881010714755096.post-90821305549830339412016-04-24T08:52:00.000-04:002016-04-24T08:52:05.953-04:00One Thing Leads to Another <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --></style> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After talking with a friend earlier this week (you know who you are), who mentioned my lack of recent blogging … then sitting through my hubby’s presentation on FamilySearch.org at our Lodge on Thursday, I decided I wanted to get back to working on my family lines. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Actually, these two things coincided with another BIG issue being discussed lately and that is how do we preserve our stuff now and into the future? The discussions talk about different hard drives, thumb drives, cloud options, Ancestry trees, FamilySearch trees, and any other website that will host information on our ancestors.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At this point I am convinced that the only way I want to preserve my family information is through monographs. I have written two so far (Hardenbrook family and Nunn family) and disseminated them to local libraries and historical societies. As I think about this issue and review my family lines, I realize I have a fair amount of work ahead of me. So, back to this week and my decision to pull out those family folders. </span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have been working on my second Caitlyn Jamison mystery, but writing time was hit and miss. If I am going to finish another book, I had to set a certain period of time to write. I started that and it’s working. So now I'm going to set a similar time aside to work on genealogy. As soon as I got back into it yesterday, I realized how much I missed my ancestors. </span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I had been working on the Tucker line, and from my 1 January 2016 post I finally found the death date and circumstances surrounding the death of Amos Tucker. I was curious about his wife, and so that is what I focused on yesterday. Amos married Martha VanGosbeck (sometimes spelled VanGasbeck) of Hector, Schuyler County, New York. Martha’s parents were Abram (b: 1809) and Matilda (b: 1813) VanGosbeck. Martha had two sisters, Mary (b: 1838) and Sarah (b: 1847). Sarah married someone with the name of King, and the sad piece of information I came upon was that Sarah died in 1875 at the age of 28; Martha died 1877 at the age of 28. </span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the 1855 New York Census, Abram states he as a “hotel keeper.” I wondered about this, and so to FultonHistory.org I went. There I found a number of ads in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ovid Bee</i> for the Union House in Trumansburg, New York that had Abr VanGosbeck, proprietor. </span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Abram died in 1861; Matilda died in 1871, Sarah in 1875, which left Martha living alone in Newfield, New York at the time of the 1875 New York census. I have yet to locate Mary VanGosbeck. </span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">P.S. I still have not figured out the best way for me to secure my working files should something happen to the house. Maybe temporary cloud storage would be the answer.&nbsp; </span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Mary Nunn Makihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252509559078174714noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882881010714755096.post-63202282529139837542016-04-09T14:15:00.000-04:002016-04-09T14:15:03.945-04:00Three Cookie Fine <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --></style> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">We are back digitizing marriage records for the City of Fredericksburg, and on Friday we did the years 1894 and 1893. Once we got into the 1800s we found the marriage certificates were too large for the scanning equipment owned by the Circuit Court. After a conversation with the archivist, it was decided that in order for us to complete this project we would have to use their photo copier at 64%, scanning one side, turning the document over to scan the second side before printing. He did not want us using the scan feature on the copy machine – he shuddered at the thought of having one or more of the documents caught somewhere in the copier, possibly shred to pieces. This hand copying process is slow and tedious work, but needs to be done in order to preserve these valuable documents. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">When we got to August 1893 we noticed there were only a handful of marriages for the rest of the year. We looked at each other and said at the same time, “financial panic of 1893.” I first came across this when researching and writing a monograph on my grandfather, Harry Nunn. I learned from Edwin G. Burrow and Mike Wallace’s book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gotham, A History of New York City to 1898</i> that by January 1894 over 70,000 New Yorkers were unemployed. Apparently the effects of the panic were felt in Virginia as well since only a few dared to get married in the second half of 1893.</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Oh, and the three cookie fine … food is not allowed in the courthouse. We were thankful the policemen on duty yesterday knew us and let us through security with a container of homemade cookies we had made for the court staff. After threatening to hold onto the cookies, I agreed to pay a three cookie fine so that the three officers could enjoy a treat while on duty.</span></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">The cookies were a big hit!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Mary Nunn Makihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252509559078174714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882881010714755096.post-4917683019944730492016-04-01T14:13:00.000-04:002016-04-01T14:13:00.277-04:00Privacy Issues<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I received three emails last night from someone who helps people fill out information on their Findagrave entries. That is a very nice hobby and I commend them for their good work.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">However ... what he sent me was three obituaries - for my parents and grandmother. Obviously I have these already, and so today I responded explaining the reason the obits are not part of my Findagrave entry was because the obits contain names of living persons.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I think sometimes in our excitement over what we can share about our ancestors we forget there are privacy issues. We as genealogists should never publish names, dates and locations of living people.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In other news, we are back digitizing Fredericksburg marriage records, and finished 1895 and 1896 today. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />Mary Nunn Makihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252509559078174714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882881010714755096.post-63732058337566630702016-03-22T13:21:00.002-04:002016-03-22T13:21:53.557-04:00Cornell University's Runaway Slave Project - Freedom on the Move<span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Dick Eastman's newsletter features an article about Cornell University's project to digitize ads about runaway slaves. This is a great service to those tracing African American ancestors.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Please spread the word about <a href="http://freedomonthemove.org/">Freedom on the Move</a>.&nbsp; These ads feature the person's physical descriptions, their skills, and where they might be headed. The owner posting the ad could also lead a researcher to find more ancestors. </span>Mary Nunn Makihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252509559078174714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882881010714755096.post-22506367654872503652016-03-02T08:11:00.000-05:002016-03-02T08:11:16.420-05:00Ancestry stumbles ... again<span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Those genealogical clubs and societies who host their websites on Rootsweb (now Ancestry controlled) probably share my frustration. The Rootsweb site has had a hardware failure that has taken it down for the past week and won't be up until sometime the middle of March. That means communication about upcoming meetings, conferences, emails to members, and random search requests is unavailable. Our sites are "404 Not Found."&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Ancestry's first stumble, in our humble opinion, was when they took over HeritageQuest. HeritageQuest had a unique search engine that helped us find ancestors when only a few pieces of information were known. That unique way of searching was eliminated as soon as Ancestry took over.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">At the end of last year, many of our club members were put into a tailspin when Ancestry announced the demise of their Family Tree Maker software (then sold to another company). Our society quickly formed a technology group to discuss the best options. Unfortunately, a couple of our members had just purchased Family Tree Maker!&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">I think we can all agree that Ancestry is a mega-site for genealogy research. I just wish they would concentrate less on how much money they can make and a little more on how to best serve their customers.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span>Mary Nunn Makihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252509559078174714noreply@blogger.com1